Church Hall Building Project

History of the Project

The current church hall was built in the 1960s and has served the church and community well for many years. Sadly, it is rapidly reaching the end of its life and will need to be replaced. In 2009, we launched the development fund in order to begin raising the money to do this. The original vision statements from this launch can be read in this document.

There is still a very long way to go but a great amount has been achieved already. We have appointed our architects, JBKS, who have taken us through an initial feasibility study. Towards the end of 2014, they came an presented the fruit of this process to the congregation and we have taken feedback from this presentation.

This is now being processed and the scale of the project considered with much prayer and thought.

2015 will represent a critical phase of the project as we make some big decisions. We invite everyone to join us in seeking the Lord's will and provision. We have also launched a guide explaining how we can begin to give tax efficiently towards the project. This can be downloaded here.

We had a week of prayer from Sunday 11th - Saturday 17th October 2015 for the development project. Sunday 18th October 2015 was a gift day for the project. On Sunday 5th October we published a document giving more details about this week of prayer and gift day. Please click here to download that document.

In the summer of 2017 we submitted a pre-application submission to Lewisham Council to gain their initial feedback. At the end of 2017 we held a community consultation in which local residents, hall users and other people with an interest in the project were invited to view our plans and share feedback.

The PCC is now considering the way ahead carefully and prayerfully and are planning to approach Southwark Diocese and Lewisham Council for permission as soon as possible.

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."Proverbs 3:5-6